Triangle

Mr E

Anyone catch this? Came out here last weekend. Its one of those films where the less you know going into it, the more you'll enjoy it.

Melissa George plays Jess, a single mum who goes on a sailing trip with some friends. They run into bad weather and capsize. While waiting/hoping for rescue, a huge ocean liner comes out of the fog. They board it to find it seemingly abandoned, and well.... I'm not going to say any more.

It's incredibly well conceived and thought out. For a movie of its type (and I won't say that type here because its a bit of a spoiler), and there are no loose threads at the end. Everything is for a reason, and will have you leaving the cinema satisfied and with a smile, happy that you've seen something that is several notches above the usual post-Summer crap.

If you haven't seen this movie and keep reading this thread, it will ruin the movie for you, so come back later when you've watched it.

tunguska

It does look interesting alright. Got decent reviews aswell, a cut above the usual horror fare. And although I would never usually go to see a film based on the mere presence of one actor or whatever, I have to say that I'd be tempted to break this rule for melissa George. Man she is smokin' hot.

Ghost Train

Yep saw this yesterday and was impressed with it, half way through the movie when you start to see whats happening you think okay shes doing the right thing shes going to sort things out and there won't be much more to it, then more is revealed and more of the details make sense. Really well thought out, tight plot. Coming out of the cinema, my mind felt it had been twisted this way and that. Thought the special effects let it down a little bit but no other complaints

D-FENS

So i'm looking to catch a scary film in preparation for Halloween, is it a silly question asking if this should be it rather than Halloween 2?...

Mr E

Suspensful but not scary. Only one "jump" moment as far as I can remember.
Couples Retreat is scarier than Halloween 2.

faceman

I havent seen this yet but it seems to be dividing the critics. Some love it, some hate it.

pinksoir

Not entirely sure what to make of it...

Coming out from the cinema I thought it was lame. Why

did she not remember everything the first time? But then I remembered that she had fallen asleep for ages after they set off and said she had had a really bad dream but couldn't remember it...

Also,

how did any of this come to happen? What set the infinite loop in motion, and why? What's the deal with the cruise liner? The fruit? How's that there? What's the significance of the cabbie? Is he death? Is this all purgatory? If so, are all the people real? I want answers dammit. I want them now, or I want them eventually!

To be honest, I was expecting a horror and this was no horror. The longer I let it digest, the better it gets though. I was expecting some sort of big reveal in the end, the prestige if you will, but it doesn't come. It's more of a dawning of realisation.

Can't help feeling I should have gone to see Zombieland though, as I don't go to the cinema too often - €30 all in for two. This is very much a DVD movie.

Mr E

Its dividing critics too, but leaning more towards positive than negative.

To comment on your spoilers --

She had concussion from the car crash. Dazed and confused when she got to the boat, slept for hours and her only memory (bad dream) was waking up on the beach.

For your second comment, its

probably best not to think about it! There were parallels to the greek myth of Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, who was cursed to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it roll all the way down again and had to repeat it for eternity. Jess had a similar ordeal, which was one of the things that really clicked with me.

pinksoir

But, but, but

the cab driver... what's his story? Is he some sort of faustian character? I get the parallels with the myth, I get all the reference points. It's just not sitting right with me at the moment. Can't quite get my head around why.

Good film though.

Einstein

Mr E wrote: »

Its dividing critics too, but leaning more towards positive than negative.

To comment on your spoilers --

She had concussion from the car crash. Dazed and confused when she got to the boat, slept for hours and her only memory (bad dream) was waking up on the beach.

For your second comment, its

probably best not to think about it! There were parallels to the greek myth of Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, who was cursed to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it roll all the way down again and had to repeat it for eternity. Jess had a similar ordeal, which was one of the things that really clicked with me.

jebus, i think the penny just dropped...w00t

thanks

I enjoyed it for sure!

Tusky

Just watched this tonight and really liked it. Very well thought out and theres a great pleasure in watching everything begin to click into place. Its a very intelligent movie for sure.

pinksoir

Tis daycent indeed. I still think about it from time to time, which is EXTREMELY rare with most films...

somuj_2

Best concieved film I've seen in a long time. Def comes from someone who ate too many mushrooms back in the day

calahans

I enjoyed it but thought that it was flawed.

I thought that the time looping structure was incorrect as it was not a time loop as the bodies were building up etc.

and

Also at one point there are three of her on the ship. Going by this there could at some future point be an infinite number of her on the ship depending on paths taken.

kryogen

thanks guys, i was considering renting this for the melissa george factor alone, now i hear its probably not the worst i feel much better about it!

chin_grin

Ok reading this really cleared up a few points about this movie (thanks guys!).

Want to mention one thing though. Has anyone watched Timecrimes? Seems to emulate it to a point. (

Even with the sack over the killers' head!

) Well worth a watch.

L31mr0d

Thought it was reasonably good. As soon as they awkwardly shoe horned in the

story of Sisyphus and then she found her keys on the ground I knew where it was going though.

Here's a brain melter for yas,

how did her keys get on the boat?

Also, another incongruity that slightly annoyed me.

Whenever something happened in the loop it was repeated in the next loop (the fallen necklace, the dead bodies, etc) Surely there should of been hundreds of wrecked cars and bodies on the side of the road at the end?

jaykhunter

I thought this was a poor film but I enjoyed it anyway. I'm a sucker for time paradox storylines but I really couldn't stand the protagonist. Spending 80 minutes with

a catatonic crazy woman

isn't my bag!

Listen there's spoilers ahoy so I don't wanna add a spoiler tag every other line, so spoiler-ing the whole thing

The storyline relatively makes sense, except for explaining the initial 'loop' and, as you guys said, the multiple bodies (i feel it was included just because it looks awesome). My main problem, besides the characters being kind of douchebags, was the protagonist. She just bugged the hell out of me. And she conforms to the 'loop' (i.e. getting a shotgun, putting on a mask and shooting people) far too quickly. She lets things happen (like herself killing the first guy with the hook) but goes along with the loop, immediately. It's like she did whatever the plot needed her to do. I suppose she was in a state of shock and so she'd do anything but it felt pretty contrived; i.e. keep the plot moving as fast as possible.

That said, past the first half hour (i.e. after they get on the ship) the time flew by; which means it must've been enjoyable. I thought the end loop did redeem the film a little, but overall I think it was a cool idea executed kinda poorly.

The cheesy melancholic piano and child/woman singing notes (ala 'The Redeadening' in that Simpsons episode) was just so third rate :pac::pac:
So I wouldn't recommend paying for this one. But if you're a fan horror films, give it a try. I enjoyed it, but thought it was a poor-ok movie. I don't think it deserves any of the praise heaped on it for being a masterpiece, or a psychological thriller, or any of that, it's pretty half-baked. It's a pretty standard horror film with a sci-fi element.

conorhal

S'Okay.... but a bit like the Box (I don't mean that as a negative comparison, the Box was absolutely awful) it's one of those twisty horror flicks that feels like it worked better when it was 40 minute episode of the Twilight Zone TV show.

tunguska

Hope the mods dont mind me resurrecting this thread, only saw it the other night so I just wanted to pass a comment or two.

Thought it was great, very similar in tone and feel to The machinist, very claustraphopic. Melissa George was fantastic. Yes shes hot but she can also act. the scene where

she goes back to her house, looks in the window at the other jess losing the plot at and hitting her son was something I really didnt expect from a film like this. It was pretty shocking. And then she goes and hops her out of it with a hammer!!

Its just one of those films that stays with you, it has a very strange and surreal quality to it. Just hope they dont go and feck it up by making a Triangle II.

finally got around to watching this and I absolutely loved it. The story was just superbly done and the manner in which every small piece comes together is stunning. It really is nice to come across a film which rewards the viewer and doesn't attempt to cheapen the experience with a cop-out ending as so many films in the genre attempt.

I'm assuming that the taxi driver at the end is Charon and Jesse's punishment is the same as Sisyphus albeit it in a far more elaborate and entertaining manner.

trustno1

Saw this a while ago and enjoyed it..

but I presume it was called Triangle as it represented the 'three' of her.. but at one point there were 3 of her on the boat and there would have been one of her out at sea (this we know from the radio conversation), so shouldn't it have been called Square???

djimi

I watched this recently; thought it would be rubbish but ended up loving it. A lot of horror movies have been very run of the mill, very samey, recently but I thought Triangle was a lot better than most Ive seen in the last while.